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cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A woman stands within her open front door and holds a broom in one hand. She is looking up toward a the unseen head of a giant pair of legs. The shoes are covered and surrounded by a thick looking black substance...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A man labeled "Czech people" stands in Central Europe in an area fenced by tall barbed wire. A flag with hammer and sickle is mounted on top of the fence. The horizon line is the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A boat named, "Port of N.O. Louisiana U.S.A." is sinking. The bow is tilted up and the stern is under water. Five men on the deck are watching anxiously, and they are labeled,...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of volunteer Jacob Blum hanging a voter registration sign on the front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, prior to a mass meeting...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a local African American female resident picking up a leaflet while a Caucasian female volunteer checks a card file at a table in the front entrance...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of exterior view of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. A mass meeting in support of the Mississippi...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the conclusion of a mass meeting in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), participants leaving Mt. Zion Baptist Church in...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of volunteer Doug Tuchman standing with two local African American men in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,...

Catalogue of Mary Holmes Seminary in West Point, Mississippi for the 1925-1926 academic year, "Under the care of The Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Division of Missions for Colored People Pittsburgh, PA."

From the Tatum Family Business Records. Photograph of a white yacht in motion on the water. At least five men, women and children are aboard. A U.S.A. flag is waving off the bow. The photograph reads"Wayward."

Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...

A collection of interviews with African Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

Oral history.; Reverend Arthur Lewis Jr. was born on October 29, 1948, in Forest Home, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, where he was graduated from high school in 1967. From Jackson State University, he earned a B.S.W. degree, and from...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...